Improvement in clip-bars for carriages



F. B. MORSE.

Clip Bar for Car ria'ges.

No. 110,386. Patented Dec. 20, 1870.

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FRANCIS B. notes, or PLANTSVILLE, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO HIM- SELF AND H. D. SMITH & OO., OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 110,386, dated December 20, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLIP-BARS CARRIAGES.

. The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may cancer-n:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS RMonsn, of Plantspanying drawing and'the letters ,of reference marked thereon, to bea full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawing constitutes part of this specification, and represents in-- Figure 1, a perspective view looking upon the up-. per side of the bar; and I Figure 2, a perspective view looking noon the under side.

This invention relates to the article of manufacture commonly called clip-barsthat is, the bar which passes over the two ends of the clip beneath the axle, and against which the nuts are turned onto the clip to secure the axle to the wood, or other parts of the carriage to the axle.

Heretofore, these have been made, as required by consumers, from bar-iron, punched, and the ends filed off to give them the necessary finished appearance.

' The object of my invention is-- First, to produce'these barsa-s an article of manufacture, and as such to supply. them to the trade by which has existed in the common straight bar from the fact that the bar is liable to be bent or sprung by the turning on of the nuts or by use, so that the nuts frequently work 01f, thereby loosening that part of me "carriage.

My invention consists in a bar complete as an article of manufacture, having the bolt-holes punched, the ends rounded complete, ready for use, and with or without a strengthening-rib upon the outside.

A is the clip-bar, formed from a bar of iron heated, and placed in dies which round and finish the two ends a a, and holes (I, punched in the bar, through which the two ends of the clip pass.

To strengthen the bar I form a rib, B, upon the un.- der side, by striking recesses G into the bar, which force the metal from these recesses into a recess in the die to form the rib B.

While this rib greatly strengthens the bar and prevents its bending, I do not wish to confine myself to its use; but

I claim as my invention As a new article of manufacture, a clip-bar constructed and prepared for use substantially as herein set forth,and either with or without the rib B.

F. B. MORSE.

Witnesses:

A. J. TIBBITS, J. H. SHUMWAY. 

